The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-12
NARY JAMES TRAVELS.
She stand by the Oak COINS Of Goethe
and schiller.
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oak collins Of Goethe and Schiller, and looked
about me on the richly carved bronze csskets
Of dukes ANA duchesses, through a long line
NJ The SAKE Weimar dynasty. and thought
how thousands. who mad known Goethe and
I Schiller. in All parts Of the world, came 70
see their tomb. and met for the first time
these Sake Wemar princes, felt the power
If yauius and the weakness Of the accident OF
birth. and wanted TO 60 right back TO our
hotel and kin that head waiter for charging
ms three times as much for half a dinner, n ia
carte. a. he would have charged for a full
one table d'hote, and plant him here among
/ the heirs 10 thrones and TO forgetfulness
Weimar's chief claim to latter day glory,
/ and one Of her chief sources Of revenue, Is the
tomb where Goethe and Schiller rest. The
uppcr portion OF the vault Is chapel, and IN
| the basement the poets lie, side by side,
| Goethe with a golden crown OF laurel az his
beod and Schiller with one Of silver, ami
piled three feet high on each coffin are folded
/ laurel ,yreaths. placed there by famous hands
during many years. They are the only un.
titled sleepers there. and they are the only
one. ont of the past whom the present has
not forgotten And yet know an American
who regretted that he came 10 Neimor, AMI
who said he couldn't see what there was about
am old coffin or two in dingy cellar TO jus
tifv man stopping of at a town like Wei
mar 10 see. couldn't understand the mans
/ feeling until be spoke of "Go-ete and then
began % comprehend, and no longer won
dered az my fellow countrymen's lack OF APP
| probation
By the way, some Of the queerest people
costumes not included one meets in Europe
come right from our own land Of public
/ schools and liberal education. The same man
| told me he had been to "York Ministry" ina
| England. and be didn't think il would com
pare with the Capitol at Washington.
We came down here from Lepsic, purely
business town. but with an art gallery and
more musical education and inclination than
Cincinnati, but not such a handsome muse
hall
saw a picture in the gallery at Leipsic
which upset me at first but suppose from an
art standpoint il is all right The subject
was "Suffer little children TO come unto
me - etc and Christ. in the costume II his
time. was surrounded by a lot Of little ones,
with genuine German faces. German attire
throughout and the company, including an
old German and his wife. had assembled in %
German cottage Of the present style. 10 may
have been am alegOry, but If DO were It was
an unjust discrimination In favor Of the Ger
man clement and if 10 were not 10 was just
/ little biz funny 70 look az. 10 was a large
picture and beautifully DONE bat would
scarcely De popular outside Of Germany.
want 20 make a few remarks with refer
ence 20 German women Those of Munich
ivoune women I refer to- have, / think, the
handsomest figures Of any women have met
/ an Europe Whether 10 Is nature or art
cannot ten. and wouldn't II could. but every
/ line d, perfect and there is with the grace Of
the French woman the substautalness Of the
English. making thing Of beauty which
ought t0 be "a joy forever The Munich figure
/ Is visible occasionally elsewhere in Germany
and not so rarely either as 90 startle You but
the same may he said of beer In Germany, yet
there tut one Nuenchener bier On Oh the
| kaiseI's realm can't sea any relation CON
saneumuity 0r other de between these two
charming characteristics of Munich. but /
presume good beer and pretty girls bayc fhe
same place in the poetry of Bavaria that the
good whisky aud pretty women Of Kentucky
have in the poetry OF that grand old com
monweath. and shall not seek 90 become
am iconoelast among the idols of the poets
Before I left Berlin ] went around to tne
Reich,tag building l0 see where Bismarck
ha. his headquarters as controller and ui-
rector of the destinies of Germany. He has
am elegant palace on Wilhelm ,trasse among
the SWEETEST of the swell. but / wanted 10 see
the mans working place, so 7 went 90 his
Office. which at this season is occupied only
bv a stray house cleaner or two going in now
and then % Sec how much dust has accumu-
lated Itisu small room for So great a man,
lust acro-. narrow han from the main
chamber. ami directly behind the president
desk said a small room; it is about twenty
feet square. / should say, not being as good
I'm mathematics AS ! am in laying carpets,
l.nid is tbs first 0f "a string of rooms occupied
by secretaries. clerks. etc 10 Is very plainly
furnished aud finished, the chairs being OF
Russia leather without arms. the carpet of
dark brown and red indistiuguishable
/ figure like an impressionist picture m
tapestry. the paper on the walls 20
match it. a little touch 0i fresco and gilt
on the ceiling. with plain gilt twenty-four
light chandelier boz the center and the wood
work of the room painted rather cheaply in
material. manner and taste. By one Of TWO
large. many paned windows on one side,
overlooking "a pleasant little court with grass
and flowers and fountain in full life, stands
the chamceIlors desk, IA modern rosewood
piece of furniture. with numberess little
drawers and pigeon holes" and shelves, and
the iuvarIable green cloth covered flap, ON
which not a spot Of Ink was visible. Lying
ON the Hap was a net covered rubber ball at
tacned 70 a tube leading away Ia some uu-
known direction, which at first / thought
was some patent process for supplying beer
u the great German, but slight investga-
ton proved that IL was very convenient
call bell, worked by wind, electricity aud
pressure and decided improvement over
our stationary bells, unless the desk is built
into the wall 70 stay as long as the house
does. Quite near, and back OF the desk, was
the only evidence in the room that Bismarck
was not young and uncessing worker
This was a wide, low velvet lounge, with a
robe and pillow thrown carelessly across il,
and bearing evidence that il was not there
for ornament alone.
There is always a touch Of pathos 70 me IN